Life lines I would like to point out some things about your article covering the Albemarle County Board of Zoning Appeals hearing on the Planned Parenthood building [“Clinic wins on appeal,” The Week, November 16]: 1) David Nova’s comment, “Now we’re hearing about a mandate to overturn Roe v. Wade…” was a typical overstatement from […]
Life lines I would like to point out some things about your article covering the Albemarle County Board of Zoning Appeals hearing on the Planned Parenthood building [“Clinic wins on appeal,” The Week, November 16]: 1) David Nova’s comment, “Now we’re hearing about a mandate to overturn Roe v. Wade…” was a typical overstatement from […]
Ecology 101 Your article “It ain’t easy building green” [November 9, 2004] provides readers with another educational tool to help shift the general thinking toward more ecologically sound building practices. The article gave a great representation of local residential and commercial examples. Highly important among these are “green” schools. Not only do the buildings provide […]
Road warrior This letter is in reference to Andrew Leahey’s review of the November 5 Monticello Road/Army of Me show at Starr Hill, printed in the November 16 C-VILLE. I could not possibly disagree with this article more. First off, did your local fashion editor review this show or was it an actual music critic? […]
News bulletin You performed a valuable service in printing Project Censored’s Top 10 stories of 2003-2004 in your September 28 issue [“All the news that’s fit to gag”]. Unfortunately, the public seems unable to absorb and to respond even to the uncensored information that is freely circulating in the press, such as: -Iraq possessing no […]
Whisky sour UVA Marching Band mom Deborah Buchanan writes an understandably spirited defense of the talents and skills of the peripatetic unit [“The ires of march,” Mailbag, October 12]. But in her diatribe against a critic of the half-time performances, she shrilly denounces Maker’s Mark as “rotgut.” Virtually handcrafted in small batches, Maker’s Mark, with […]
Stocking Wal-Mart’s issues I applaud the running of Geri Dreiling’s synopsis of Wal-Mart’s current legal woes in your October 12 issue [“Wal-Mart’s everyday low wages”]. However, the unbalanced inclusion of Susan Sorensen’s sidebar, “Cents and sensibility,” detailing how great the deals at Wal-Mart look to an average shopper, makes it appear that, “social justice issues […]
Terrorism: a poor excuse Your September 28 issue’s lead story “All the news that’s fit to gag,” about media “self-censoring,” is one of the most substantive pieces I have seen in print anywhere the past year. Thanks for kicking it over on Big Media, whose working press foot-soldiers are either asleep at the wheel or […]
Modern English Info for “Les 8 Gourmands” [“Eat your heart out, September 21]: How the saying came to be on the label of an Aero candy bar at Foods of All Nations seems as illogical as its application to its true source, but “bubble and squeak” is a traditional English dish. The simple-and-humble ingredients hardly […]
According to Planned Your recent article about challenges to Planned Parenthood’s zoning permit provided an opportunity for anti-choice activists to mislead the public [“Zone of contention,” The Week, October 19]. While they would have us believe that Planned Parenthood’s sole purpose is the provision of abortions, this could not be further from the truth. In […]